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Original Wisdom : Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing, Paperback by Wolff, Robert, ISBN 0892818662, ISBN-13 9780892818662, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A psychologist who lived among the aboriginal Sng'oi people in the mountains of Malaysia reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition, and provides suggestions how we can reconnect with the ancient intuitive awareness of the world's indigenous people. Original.

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* Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other. * Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition. * Shows how we can reconnect with the ancient intuitive awareness of the world's original people. Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi--pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic--live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people--as do many other aboriginal groups--possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day. Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.

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Publisher
Inner Traditions International, The Limited
ISBN-10
0892818662
ISBN-13
9780892818662
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1805425

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Book Title
Original Wisdom : Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
Author
Robert Wolff
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mysticism, Indigenous Studies, Ethnopsychology, Ecology, Spiritualism
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Nature, Psychology, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
8.4 Oz

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Gn468.W65 2001
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It will fill you with hope for a human future more in line with what it means to truly be human. Read it, dream about it, and share it with your friends. This is a message the world must hear., "Robert Wolff's moving autobiographical narrative takes us back to an older, wiser human time, when people knew that spirituality was not apart from the naturalness of things. This book demonstrates how the legendary "dream people" were not at all ephemeral, but vulnerably and exquisitely human.", Each chapter in this book contains help, knowledge, and a new perspective. Even though the author is warning us about many dangers we face these days, this book is full of hope, affirmation, and love. I hope you will plunk it down on your kitchen counter or bedside table and read into it for as far as it takes you. That may be to a new and better world.
Table of Content
Foreword Introduction Assumptions Draw Something, Anything Bali and the Barong Different Realities Succession Dimensions of Healing The People The Real World, the Shadow World Reading and Writing Trees in the Jungle Slaves The Mango Tree Shaman Learning to Be Human Again Privacy and Alienation What Do Those Hundred Men Do? We Take Care of Each Other Afterword
Copyright Date
2001
Lccn
2001-002723
Dewey Decimal
305.8/001
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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If you have ever narrowly avoided personal catastrophe simply because you "superstitiously" followed a dream interpretation or acted on some inexplicable sense of "knowing" to take or cease some action, then I suspect that you will find Wolff's encounters with primitive people's fascinating. If you require iron clad hard science to entertain such possibilities then I suggest you wait (but I'll make a wager that those who do eventually piece the science together on these issues will have to begin with such accounts anyway).

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